ISBN-10: 0495006734

ISBN-13: 9780495006732

Edition: 7th 2008

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This anthology offers students balanced coverage of the most pressing topics in bioethics, including partial-birth abortion, organ transplants, and global pandemics, to name a few. With a range of classic and current essays as well as actual medical and legal cases written by outstanding medical ethics scholars, CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN BIOETHICS helps readers understand each issue from a diverse range of standpoints?including those of medical researchers and practitioners, legal experts, and philosophers.

Jeffrey Kahn is Robert Henry Levi and Ryda Hecht Levi Professor of Bioethics and Public Policy at Johns Hopkins' Berman Institute of Bioethics, and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the university's Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received his undergraduate degree from UCLA, and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins (MPH) and Georgetown University, where he received his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1989. He has held faculty positions in the medical schools at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota, where he was professor and director in the Center for Bioethics from 1996-2011; he was visiting professor at the University of Zurich in 2009. Dr Kahn has served as staff or a member of a number of national commissions related to bioethics, including chairing the IOM Committee on the Necessity of Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research in 2011. Dr. Kahn's research interest includes ethics of leading-edge research, ethics and genetics, and ethics and public health.

Anna Mastroianni is Professor of Law at the University of Washington's School of Law and Institute for Public Health Genetics. She has additional faculty appointments in the UW Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and in the Department of Bioethics & Humanities and the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine. Professor Mastroianni received her B.A., B.S., and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and her M.P.H. from the University of Washington. She has worked in a number of legal and governmental policy positions in Washington D.C., including Associate Director of President Bill Clinton's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Study Director of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences. Previously, she worked in the private practice of law in Washington, D.C.. She has served on a number of government and non-government advisory bodies, including the National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. She has been nationally recognized for her contributions to health policy, law, and bioethics as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Mastroianni's research interests are in the intersections of law, bioethics, public health and medicine, with a special emphasis on the legal and ethical challenges of research with human subjects and assisted reproductive technologies.

LeRoy Walters is the Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He received his BA from a small Pennsylvania liberal-arts college, Messiah College, and a B.D. degree at the Associated Mennonite Seminaries. He then studied for two years in Germany, one year at the University of Heidelberg and one year at the Free University of Berlin. Walters returned to the United States and received his PhD in Christian ethics from Yale University. In 1971, Walters joined the newly-established Kennedy Institute of Ethics as the first faculty member appointed to a multi-year term. He served as director of the Institute from 1996-2000. His interests are in the ethical issues in human genetics, and since 2003 Dr. Walters has devoted major attention to Holocaust Studies and to the "euthanasia" program initiated in 1939 under National Socialism.

Introduction To Ethics

Ethical Theory and Bioethics

Fundamental Problems

The Study of Morality

Moral Dilemmas and Disagreements

The Problem of Relativism

Moral Justification

Types of Ethical Theory

Utilitarian Theories

Kantian Theories

Contemporary Challenges to Traditional Theories

Virtue Ethics

The Ethics of Care

Casuistry

Ethical Principles

Respect for Autonomy

Beneficence

Justice

Law and Policy

Ethics and Public Affairs

Morality and Law

Legal and Moral Rights

Law, Authority, And Autonomy

Justice and Autonomy in Health Care

Justice in Access to Health Care

Introdcution

Just Health Care and the Right to Health Care

"Is There a Right to Health Care and, if so, What Does it Encompass?"

"Justice, the Basic Social Contract, and Health Care."

"The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care."

"Rights to Health Care."

Managed Care and Access to Care

"Securing Health or Just Health Care?: The Effect of the Health Care System."

"Managed Care: How Economic Incentive Reforms Went Wrong."

"Managed Care: Rationing without Justice, But Not Unjustly." Rationing

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